The first season of Love Island Australia began airing on 27 May 2018 9Go! and 9Now presented by Sophie Monk and narrated by Eoghan McDermott. The final aired on 5 July 2018, with Grant Crapp and Tayla Damir winning and sharing the $50,000 prize money. Eden Dally and Erin Barnett finished as runners up.
Format Love Island involves a group of contestants, referred to as Islanders, living in isolation from the outside world in a villa in Mallorca, Spain, constantly under video surveillance. To survive in the villa the Islanders must be coupled up with another Islander, whether it be for love, friendship or money, as the overall winning couple receives a combined $50,000. On the first day, the Islanders couple up for the first time based on first impressions, but over the duration of the series they are forced to "re-couple" where they can choose to remain in their current couple or swap partners.
Any Islander who remains single after the coupling is eliminated and dumped from the island. Islanders can also be eliminated via public vote, as during the series the public vote through the Love Island app available on smartphones for their favourite couple or prospective couple. Pairs who receive the fewest votes risk being eliminated. Often a twist has occurred where it has been up to the Islanders to vote one of their own off the island. During the final week, the public vote towards which couple they want to win the series and therefore take home $50,000.
Islanders The Islanders for the first series were released by Nine on 21 May 2018, just one week before the premiere episode. Islander Age Hometown Occupation Entered Exited Status Grant Crapp 22 Canberra Electrician Day 1 Day 39 Tayla Damir 21 Perth Beauty Queen Day 1 Day 39 Eden Dally 25 Sydney Prison Officer Day 1 Day 39 Erin Barnett 23 Melbourne Nurse Day 1 Day 39 Amelia Plummer 23 Sydney Nutrition Student Day 23 Day 39 Third place Josh Moss 25 Sydney Sports Administrator Day 1 Day 39 Third place Dom Thomas 26 Sydney Project Manager Day 16 Day 38 Shelby Bilby 25 Gold Coast Event Management Student Day 23 Day 38 Mark O'Dare 26 Sydney Model Day 31 Day 37 Millie Fuller 24 Sydney Doggy Daycare Worker Day 1 Day 37 Edyn "Mac" Mackney 22 Gold Coast Social Media Manager Day 14 Day 36 Teddy Briggs 25 Adelaide Model Day 21 Day 36 Kory Grant 28 Melbourne Concreter Day 31 Day 35 Jaxon Human 24 Melbourne Stripper/Tennis Coach Day 11 Day 30 Françoise Draschler 28 Melbourne Marketing Executive Day 8 Day 26 Cassidy McGill 24 Melbourne Barmaid Day 1 Day 25 Elias Chigros 27 Melbourne Personal Trainer Day 4 Day 18 Justin Lacko 27 Melbourne International Model Day 1 Day 18 Natasha Cherie 24 Perth Beauty Salon Owner Day 1 Day 15 John James Parton 32 Melbourne DJ Day 4 Day 11 Kim Hartnett 21 Brisbane Hairdresser/Bikini Model Day 2 Day 9 Charlie Taylor 22 Sydney International Rugby Player Day 1 Day 7
Future appearances
In 2019, Justin Lacko competed on season 5 of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Kory Grant appeared on season two of True Love Or True Lies?
In 2020, Erin Barnett competed on season 6 of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
In 2022, Grant Crapp competed on The Challenge: Australia and The Challenge: World Championship.
In 2023, Teddy Briggs competed on season 7 of The Amazing Race Australia.
Coupling and elimination history Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Final Day 1 Day 3 Day 7 Day 9 Day 10 Day 15 Day 17 Day 18 Day 22 Day 24 Day 25 Day 26 Day 30 Day 31 Day 35 Day 36 Day 37 Day 38 Grant Cassidy Tayla Immune Tayla Tayla Safe Cassidy Tayla Immune Tayla Vulnerable Tayla Tayla Mac & Teddy to dump Safe Finalist Winner (Day 39) Tayla Josh Single Grant Vulnerable Grant Grant Immune Jaxon Grant Immune Grant Immune Grant Grant Winner (Day 39) EdenErin Erin Immune Erin Erin Justin to dump Erin Erin Immune Erin Vulnerable Erin Erin Mark & Millie to dump Safe Finalist Runner-up (Day 39) Erin Eden Eden Vulnerable EdenEden Justin to dump Eden Eden Immune Eden Immune Eden Eden Runner-up (Day 39) Amelia colspan=9 Josh Immune Josh Immune Josh Josh Mac & Teddy to dump Vulnerable Finalist Third place (Day 39) Josh Tayla Kim Natasha Immune Natasha Cassidy Single Safe Françoise Amelia Immune Amelia Vulnerable Amelia Amelia Third place (Day 39) Dom colspan=6 Cassidy Immune Millie Millie Immune Mac Vulnerable Single Shelby Mark & Millie to dump SafeEliminatedDumped (Day 38) Shelby colspan=9 Jaxon Immune Jaxon Immune Single DomDumped (Day 38) Mark colspan=13 Mac Millie Vulnerable VulnerableDumped (Day 37) Millie Justin Justin Vulnerable JustinJustin Immune Dom Dom Immune Teddy Immune Kory MarkDumped (Day 37) Mac colspan=5 Jaxon Immune Teddy Single Vulnerable Dom Immune Mark Teddy Vulnerable Dumped (Day 36) Teddy colspan=8 Mac Françoise Immune Millie Vulnerable Single MacDumped (Day 36) Kory colspan=13 Millie SingleDumped (Day 35) Jaxon colspan=5 Mac Vulnerable Tayla Shelby Immune Shelby Vulnerable Dumped (Day 30) Françoise colspan=3 Immune Elias Elias Immune Josh Teddy Immune SingleDumped (Day 26) Cassidy Grant Elias Vulnerable Single Josh Dom Immune Grant Single VulnerableDumped (Day 25) Justin Millie Millie Immune MillieMillie VulnerableDumped (Day 18) Elias colspan=2 Cassidy Immune FrançoiseFrançoiseEliminatedDumped (Day 18) Natasha Charlie Josh Vulnerable Josh SingleDumped (Day 15) colspan=2 Kim Immune Single Walked (Day 11) Kim Single Josh VulnerableDumped (Day 9) Charlie Natasha SingleDumped (Day 7) Notes 1 none 2 3 none 4 5 none6 none 7 8 9 10 11 1213 Walkednone none DumpedNoDumpingCharliecouple upKimto dumpNoDumpingNatashacouple upNoDumpingElias to dumpNoDumping Cassidyto dumpFrançoisecouple upJaxonto dumpNoDumpingKorychoice to dumpto dumpAustralia's choiceto dumpEden & ErinJustin Eden & Erin'schoice to dumpGrant & Tayla Notes
: Kim arrived after the first coupling, but was told she would be able to steal a boy for herself on Day 2. She chose Josh, leaving Tayla. All other couples from Day 1's coupling remained set. : Australia voted for the girl they hope finds true love in the villa. As a new islander, Françoise was immune from the vote. Kim received the fewest votes and was dumped from the island, leaving single. : As a new arrival, Françoise was able steal a boy for herself on Day 10. She chose Elias. This left Cassidy single. All other couples from Day 7's recoupling remained set. : Dom arrived after the re-coupling ceremony, but was told he would be able to steal a girl for himself on Day 17. He chose Cassidy, leaving Josh single. All other couples from Day 15's recoupling remained set. : Australia voted for the boy they believe would leave the villa with a girlfriend. As a new islander, Dom was immune from the vote. Elias received the fewest votes and was dumped from the island, leaving Françoise single. Then Jaxon & Justin were revealed to have the next fewest votes and were vulnerable to be dumped. The power as who between Justin & Jaxon would be dump was held by Eden & Erin - as Eden received the most votes, and Erin was his couple. Erin & Eden chose to dump Justin, leaving Millie single. : Amelia and Shelby arrived after the re-coupling on Day 22 and were told they would be able to steal a boy each. Amelia chose Josh and Shelby chose Jaxon. A full re-coupling followed, with Cassidy and Mac left single. Australia voted to save one of the two girls, with Cassidy being dumped after receiving the fewest votes. : On Day 30, the Girls were tasked to collectively decide to dump one boy from the island. They dumped Jaxon, leaving Shelby single. : Kory and Mark arrived on Day 31, with both being told they can steal one girl each. Kory chose Millie and Mark chose Mac. This left Teddy and Dom single. All other couples from Day 26's recoupling remained set. : The Day 35 recoupling ceremony was the final recoupling. From this point forward, the couples are set and one of the final 6 couples will be dumped every night until finale night. : Australia voted for their favorite couples. Teddy & Mac and Mark & Millie received the fewest votes and were up for the dump. The saved islanders had to publicly vote to dump one of the vulnerable couples, with each saved couple casting one vote. As the vote resulted in 2–2 tie, with the saved couples were then forced to reach a consensus decision. As a consensus could not be reached, vulnerable couples then had to choose between themselves as to who would be dumped. Mac & Teddy elected to be dumped to save Mark & Millie. : Australia voted for their least favorite couples. Amelia & Josh and Mark & Millie received the fewest votes and were vulnerable to be dumped. The safe islanders had to reach a consensus decision to dump either Amelia & Josh and Mark & Millie. The safe couples chose to dump Mark & Millie. : Australia voted for the couple they wanted in the Finale of Love Island Australia. Dom & Shelby had the fewest votes and were the final couple dumped from Love Island. : Australia voted for which of the final three couples they want to win Love Island Australia. Grant & Tayla received the most votes, were declared the winners of Love Island Australia and forget in the final dilemma - Both received an envelope; one contained $50,000 and the other had nothing. Tayla received the $50,000 and had to decide whether to share the money with Grant or to keep the money for herself. She chose to share the money, so both Grant and Tayla received $25,000.
Reception Love Island Australia averaged around 200,000 viewers for its linear broadcasts in overnight OzTAM ratings, increasing to an average of 511,000 when adding viewers from Nine's streaming service, 9Now. The series performed strongest in the youngest key demographic band (16 to 39 year olds), but ranked low amongst total viewers. The series generated in excess of 150 million views through its official YouTube channel, however 85% were viewers from outside Australia, and YouTube viewers cannot be monetised.
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